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unpleasantly forceful — especially loud and harsh- "Swaller thet!" yelled Las Vegas, with terrible strident ferocity.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- Muted now, not strident, not announcing itself with a clarion, but waxing and waning in steady oscillations.Stephen King -- Carrie
- There was a long pause, which the inner devils filled with strident laughter; then May freed herself from his arms and stood up.Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- "You never will," returned Longstreth, stridently.Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
- BRADY (Red-faced, his larynx taut, roaring stridently) As they would look to the mountains whence cometh our strength.Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
- Their strident quorks drifted down from above as Osha washed and cleaned and bandaged the maester's wounds, under Luwin's terse instruction.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- And now indeed the office was alive with hustle and bustle, annunciator bells, strident commands.Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
- No age can ever have been as stridently sex-conscious as our own; those innumerable books by men about women in the British Museum are a proof of it.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- Voices were coming from the library, the first one strident and immediately recognizable as their mother's: "What do you mean she's missing?"Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
- Startled, Alex Conklin snapped open his eyes, instantly shaking the sleep from his head as he clawed for the strident instrument on the bedside table.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- As he spoke, Seth howled stridently outside the tent.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- "I found it on the miner Creede," replied the giant, stridently.Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
- His speech was strident but still smooth, and peppered with jokes.ZZ Packer -- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
- In a very loud and strident voice the consulate official ordered Charles to sit.Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
- "Brava! brava!" old Steyne's strident voice was heard roaring over all the rest.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- By the time a strident electronic buzzer told us to go back inside, I had formed a semiclear picture of the group's emotions.James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
- It is not as though I had expected an apology from her, but the stridency of this reply did, I must say, take me aback a little.Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
- "Cut out the joshin'," rang out Monty's strident voice.Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
- He heard a sound above the beeping traffic, something strident rising in the night.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- Before the curtain rises, RUTH'S voice, a strident, dramatic church alto, cuts through the silence.Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
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